298 Quotes by Alan Alda

As long as it doesn’t seem fake, the more we establish familiarity with our audience – not speaking to them from left field or from on high – the better chance we have that they’ll listen to what we have to say. And possibly even accept it.

Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.

Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

You could measure how long I would remember that moment by the redness of my cheeks. My father saw that I liked projects and taught me how to make lamps out of Chianti bottles.

I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor.

Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.

Sometimes, being willing to see the other person means you have to be willing to let them see you.

I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.

Most research, I think, can only suggest, or point toward, an insight of some kind.